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  • Orkester bench is simplistic and straightforward

    Beautifully expressing her roots in a Nordic design culture as well as aiming beyond – Sweden-based Mia Cullin skillfully crafts ​​the ‘Orkester’ collection featuring – a minimalistic bench with two or three seats fabricated in ash wood, natural or stained. Comprising clean, straightforward as well as simplistic geometric shapes harmoniously infused with handcrafted intricate details

  • The Aire Pavilion is covered with giant disjointed scaffolding

    Madrid-based architecture studio P + S Estudio de Arquitectura designed a giant tin scaffold wrapped with a triangular sack, made…

  • Assemblages lighting collection by The Back Studio

    Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Every design week reveals an overwhelming amount of lamps with no innovative purpose, neither in form nor function, simply to provide established brands with an excuse to talk about novelties and brand new products. This is not the case. The Indian / Italian duo

  • Modular Imagination by Virgil Abloh for Cassina

    Modular Imagination, a project built on flexibility, designed by creative genius Virgil Abloh, honorably entering Cassina‘s catalog.  Formed by two different-sized building blocks, Modular Imagination is an open invitation to participate in the configuration of space and building new interior worlds. The two matt-black building blocks can be configured to adapt to any setting: the

  • Arco K 2022 for Flos by Studio Castiglioni

    Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the iconic lighting piece Arco, Flos is releasing a new limited version, only available online.  The Arco K 2022 limited is introduced with an innovative crystal block base, expanding the light on the structure of the lamp itself

  • Omnia speaker: a new multi-awarded design

    Tapping into a new user experience, Sonus faber latest release Omnia speaker has already made a place for itself on the market.  This new speaker is created with the aim to bring Sonus faber professional quality audio to a home stage by being designed as a compact version of their well-known sound systems, all while

  • From the Himalaya’s by Super Local

    Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. To deal with the waste of the Himalaya’s 80.000 annual visitors, Super Local developed an end-to-end process, including setting up an appropriate plastics workspace, building two hand-operated plastic injection machines, and training the local staff in collaboration with Sagarmatha Next. Shredded aluminum and plastic

  • Blume by Nikki Alagha

    Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Nikki Alagha focuses on handmade details that add an emotional value. Her collection, Blume, is a handmade planter with a customizable trellis. Each trellis piece can be linked together at multiple angles to grow with the plant. She practices sustainability by creating made-to-order objects

  • The Alchemy of Glass by Annalisa Iacopetti

    Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Annalisa Iacopetti is an Italian designer who recently graduated from Central Saint Martins in London. Her journey as a designer began while working with blown glass at Venini in Murano. The alchemy of glass is a surreal installation where water is the actual performer.

  • Announcing the opening date of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum

    The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly Albright-Knox Art Gallery,will open to the public on May 25, 2023 in Buffalo.This renewed…

  • Sharp triangular balconies define an apartment building in Bulgaria

    The STARH architecture firm, based in Varna, Garcia, designed a residential block, defined by sharp eight-meter balconies.Design featuresThe building area…

  • The Hiccaway straw is a cure for hiccups

    A neurosurgeon has spent years developing a science-backed solution called the HiccAway, a straw-like device that distracts parts of the nervous system involved in hiccups. Boo! Only joking. The only thing more annoying than hiccups are the old wives’ tales and zany folklore remedies that are supposed to cure them. Now, scientists say they have

  • LUCTRA: an essential light for our well-being

    LUCTRA is the first biologically effective LED lighting range that closely replicates natural daylight. Daylight ensures that we sleep well, feel rested and are productive during the day. However, in our busy lives, we rarely spend a lot of time outdoors and do not expose ourselves to enough natural daylight. © LUCTRA Even seemingly brightly

  • Studio DWAS: it’s time to change time perception

    A simple feeling that “we don’t have enough time”, triggered Studio DWAS in 2018 to design 2 timepieces with a simple message: moments matter.  Areas of work and free time are dissolving, which has a clear impact on our social lives. Buying happiness and the drive for status conflicts with our need for free time

  • LULA bed is designed for next level power naps

    LULA bed is a biomorphic nap furniture, designed by talented young product designer Gaudutė Žilytė experimenting with the sculpting boundaries of foam. Young designers prize is an annual competition organized since 2011 by Design Innovations Center of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, aiming to encourage the professional development of design students and present their ideas